Chapter 3- The Long Rifle

Chapter 3- The Long Rifle

Little House in the Big Woods

Multiple Choice

Which season does the  Chapter ake place?

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Multiple Choice

What did Pa make every evening he needed for hunting?

• traps

• bullets

Multiple Choice

Who helped Pa get the supplies?

• Ma

• Mary & Carrie

• Mary & Laura

• He did it on his own

Multiple Choice

Where did Pa sit to make the bullets?

• fireplace(hearth)

• in the barn

• outside

​The finished bulllets he put into his bullet pouch. This was a little bag which Ma had made beautifully of buckskin, from a buck Pa had shot.

Multiple Choice

Who made the buckskin pouch?

• Ma

• Laura

• Jack

• Carrie

Laura handed him the smooth, polished cowhorn full of gunpowder. The top of the horn was a metal cap. Pa filled this cap full of the gunpowder and poured the powder down the barrel.

Multiple Choice

What did Pa keep his gunpowder in?

• a cowhorn with a metal cap

• barrel

• wooden box

When Pa was at home, the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. Pa had whittled the wood out of green stick with is knife, and had driven their straight ends deep into holes in the log. The hooked ends curved upward and held the gun securely.

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Multiple Choice

Where did Pa keep his gun?

• bedroom 

• barn

• over the door

​The Story of Pa and the Voice in the Woods

​"When I was a little boy, not much bigger than Mary, I had to go every afternoon to find the cows in the woods and bring them home.

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Multiple Choice

What Job did Pa do  as a little boy?

• milk the cows

• bring the cows home

• feed teh cows

​I couldn't find the cows! "I listened, but I could not hear the their bells. I called but the cows didn't come.

Multiple Choice

What did the cows wear? 

• be

• shoes

• sweaters 

Multiple Choice

What was the voice in the woods?

• panther

• bear

• owl